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RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 1'7, 1911.

1,014,695 Patented Jan 16,1912.

FLOYDE DENSMORE, 0F HAINES, DISTRICT or ALASKA.

RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent- Patented Jan. 16, 1912.

Application filed May 17, 1911. Serial No. 627,691.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FLOYDE DENsMoRn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Haines, Southeast, District of Alaska, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to rail joints and has for an object to provide means for interlocking the ends of rails.

For the purpose mentioned, use is made of adjacent rail ends, each of the rail ends being provided with extended portions adapted to fit into recessed portions, the said rail ends being rigidly secured by means of suitable bolts and having their similar parts in relative alinement.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings constituting a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which Figure 1 is a side elevation, parts being broken away .to disclose the underlying structure. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the rail ends. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the other rail end. Fig. 4 is a vertical section taken on the line 44 in Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the views I provide rails 10, 11 having heads 12, 13 webs 14, 15 and bases 16', 17. The head 12 has the under side thereof cut away to form a recess 18, the said head being extended outwardly beyond the base 16 and the head 13 of the rail 11 has the upper side thereof cut away to form a recess 19, the extended portion of the head 12 being adapted to be received in the recess 19 with an extended portion 20 of the head 13 being adapted tobe received in the recess 18 so that the sitles of the heads 12 and 13 will be in relative alinement. The webs 14 and 15 of the rails 10 and 11 are reduced in cross section at the points 21, 22 respectively to form reduced webs 21, 22*. the reduced web 21 being extended outwardly a.

distance beyond the base 16 and adapted to abut against the edge of the web .22 which is spaced inwardly from the outer end of the base 17 the relative sides of the reduced webs 21 22* being adapted to aline when the webs are positioned to abut. By referring to Fig. 3 it will be seen that the base 17 of the rail 11 is extended outwardly a distance beyond both the reduced Web 22 and the head 13 and by referring to Fig. 2

it will be seen that the base 16 is cut away to a distance beyond both the reduced web 21 and the head 12 so that when the beads 12 and 13 and the reduced webs 21 and 22* are relatively moved into engagement, the bases 16 and 17 will abut and the relative sides of the bases 16 and 17 will be in substantial alinement as shown in Fig. 4. The reduced webs 21 and 22 are each provided with transversely extending apertures 23 and fish plates 24 are provided to engage the reduced webs 21 and 22 with the outer ends of the said plates positioned at the points of reduction 21, 22 so that the fish plates 24 will be flush with the two webs 14, 15 of the rails 10, 11, suitable bolts 25 being passed through the fish plates 24 and the openings 23, thus rigidly connecting the rails 10 and 11.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that when the rail ends 10, 11 are connected as mentioned an eflicient and durable joint will beformed and which in appear-.

ance will be substantially similar to the rail proper as the various parts of the rail ends and the fish plates are positioned to aline with the sides of the rails 10 and 11, thus producing a neat and substantial joint. By referring to Fig. 1 it will be seen that the rail ends are spaced a slight distance apart to allow for expansion and contraction.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new, is

A rail joint comprising a rail having a head extended outwardly a distance beyond the base thereof, a laterally reduced web extended a distance outwardly beyond the base of the rail, a second rail having the .base extended outwardly a distance beyond the head and web thereof, the web of the said second rail being reduced in thickness, the said first and second rails being adapted to abut with their corresponding sides in alinement and fish plates adapted to engage the reduced webs of the said rails with the In testimony whereof I afiix my signature outer sides of the fish plates in alinement in presence of two witnesses. with the webs of the rail, bolts being provided for engagement with the said fish FLOYDE DENSMORE' plates and the said reduced webs to rigidly Witnesses:

connect the said first and second mentioned JOSEPH B. HORNE,

rails.

GEORGE F. SIssoN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

